My Favorite Horror Novels/Novellas: A Constantly Evolving List

The absolute essentials. I've limited myself to one book per author. Organized by authors' last names.

The Damnation Game, by Clive Barker (1985)
Story of the Eye, by Georges Bataille (1928)
The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty (1971)
The Scarf, by Robert Bloch (1947 / 1966)
Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (1962)
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski (2000)
The Obscene Bird of Night, by José Donoso (1970)
The Between, by Tananarive Due (1995)
Horns, by Joe Hill (2010)
The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson (1908)
The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson (1959)
The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (1898)
The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka (1915)
The Girl Next Door, by Jack Ketchum (1989)
It, by Stephen King (1986)
The Cipher, by Kathe Koja (1991)
Conjure Wife, by Fritz Leiber (1943)
The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing (1988)
The Stepford Wives, by Ira Levin (1972)
The Monk, by Matthew Gregory Lewis (1796)
At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft (1936)
The Great God Pan, by Arthur Machen (1890)
I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson (1954)
Melmoth the Wanderer, by Charles Maturin (1820)
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (2006)
Toplin, by Michael McDowell (1985)
Zombie, by Joyce Carol Oates (1995)
Starling Street, by Dinah Palmtag (1973)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, by Edgar Allan Poe (1838)
The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe (1794)
The Ideal, Genuine Man, by Don Robertson (1987)
The Room, by Hubert Selby Jr. (1971)
Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (1818)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
Dracula, by Bram Stoker (1897)
Ghost Story, by Peter Straub (1979)
The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson (1952)
The Other, by Thomas Tryon (1971)
The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole (1764)
The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells (1897)
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (1890)